Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Means of communication with Andagoya are extremely irregular and difficult. Avianca renders service from Medellin to Quibdo with PBY-5R planes. From Quibdo to El Yuto, which does not show on any map, you go by launch. From El Yuto to Istmina a jungle trail enables a truck to make its way, though rather difficult in the winter months as the rivet" Certegui may flood the area. From Istmina to Andagoya you have recourse, once again, to a launch. Two days overall of difficult travel, if you are lucky...
...yard and stopped. Local 234 of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union was on strike. Next morning Philadelphians got to work as best they could, through four inches of snow. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads ran extra trains; hundreds of private car pools went into operation; big companies used their truck fleets to pick up employees; and thousands of people simply walked...
...successor to the vanished Markos Vafiades (TIME, Feb. 14). The new leader and "temporary Premier" was loannis (John) loannidies, a seasoned, sinister and widely feared revolutionist who has been a member of the Communist Party since 1918. Henceforth, said the rebel broadcast, the party would have no more truck with "nationalist diversions." Military commanders who could not absorb "Stalinist military science" (i.e., politics first, military exigencies second), would follow Markos into oblivion...
...courtly Samuel Hay Kauffmann to congratulate him. At 50, Kauffmann had been elected president of the Washington Evening Star-the capital's oldest, richest and most conservative newspaper. Said the friend: "I remember the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the tailgate of a Star truck." Sam Kauffmann, grandson and namesake of the Star's first president, had started at the bottom 28 years ago to learn the business side of the business...
...them through the red tape needed to get working papers and a job. Both churches have ambitious plans for Adelheide. By May the Protestants expect to open a hospital that will accommodate 90 paralyzed children; the Catholics are planning to turn the Luftwaffe airport behind the village into a truck farm. The total population will eventually be 2,800, divided equally between the churches...